Re: [SUMO] Quiz - May 31

[jz8d-smmn@asahi-net.or.jp (Doreen Simmons)]

At 22:40 99.6.1 +0100, Nashinokawa wrote:
 
>Although (the warm-up time) is normally 4 minutes, I'd heard that the
>time-keeping shimpanin
>just kept a note of the number of times the rikishi went back to collect
>salt so that the real time could be much shorter or longer, depending on the
>style of the slow one.  Konishiki was deliberately slow I believe, with
>languid stretches, long stares and slow walks back etc....

This used to be  true (I heard it from a friend who was a judge at the
time), but in the past decade at least,  the time-keeper uses a stop-watch.
But the time may be extended if the four minutes are up in the middle of a
visit to the corners for more salt.

 
>>> Q3: Who is in charge of checking the time, and how to tell it to gyoji?
 
>In addition to looking he will also bow to the shimpanin to acknowledge he
>has got the signal.  On the TV this is the first obvious sign that things
>are about to happen

The first obvious sign is the time-keeping judge raising his right hand
sideways to chest level and checking that the young yobidashi sitting at
the corners have seen the gesture. They will then rise and offer towels and
inform the rikishi "Jikan desu" (It's time) next time they return to the
corners. The gyoji is required to look over his right shoulder every time a
shikiri is completed; the nod is exchanged when time is up.
 
 

Doreen in sumoland

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